Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there. — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach… — Rumi Copy Share Image
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share
“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.” — Rumi Copy Share
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